Local GOPers back report, says party needs 'tough love'

Report comes as OHIO GOP names new chairman

6:17 PM,
Mar. 18, 2013

David Uible, Clermont County commissioner

Written by

Paul E. Kostyu

The leaders of the Ohio and Kentucky Republican parties endorsed the findings of a report by the Republican National Committee that says the party must be more "welcoming and inclusive," which includes to gays.

But what may be more important, according to Steve Robertson, Kentucky's GOP chairman, is whether the party follows through with the 100-page report's recommendations.

"It is positively true that there are a lot of growing communities," Robertson told The Enquirer. "The party has to understand it has to to engage these communities to find ways to relate the principles and vision of ...